{"product_id":"religion-around-billie-holiday-hardcover","title":"Religion Around Billie Holiday - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTracy Fessenden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as \"Strange Fruit\" and \"God Bless the Child.\" Holiday and her music were also strongly shaped by religion, often in surprising ways. \u003ci\u003eReligion Around Billie Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e examines the spiritual and religious forces that left their mark on the performer during her short but influential life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixing elements of biography with the history of race and American music, Tracy Fessenden explores the multiple religious influences on Holiday's life and sound, including her time spent as a child in a Baltimore convent, the echoes of black Southern churches in the blues she encountered in brothels, the secular riffs on ancestral faith in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Jewish songwriting culture of Tin Pan Alley. Fessenden looks at the vernacular devotions scholars call lived religion--the Catholicism of the streets, the Jewishness of the stage, the Pentecostalism of the roadhouse or the concert arena--alongside more formal religious articulations in institutions, doctrine, and ritual performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInsightful and compelling, Fessenden's study brings unexpected materials and archival voices to bear on the shaping of Billie Holiday's exquisite craft and indelible persona. \u003ci\u003eReligion Around Billie Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the power and durability of religion in the making of an American musical icon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eTracy Fessenden \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Steve and Margaret Forster Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University and the author of \u003ci\u003eCulture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52467932299571,"sku":"9780271080956","price":35.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2HlHCys1CX9780271080956.webp?v=1759348495","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/religion-around-billie-holiday-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}